The 3 P.M. Santa Claus Express rolls down the Midland Railway Main behind their Katy RS3M near Station Sign Nowhere. The combine car behind the caboose is CNW 441, built for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway in 1898. The CStPM&O was also known as the "Omaha Road", and Union Pacific still retains their AAR Reporing Mark, CMO, for use on rolling stock.

The 3 P.M. Santa Claus Express rolls down the Midland Railway Main behind their Katy RS3M past Station Sign Nowhere. The combine car behind the caboose is CNW 441, built for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway in 1898. The CStPM&O was also known as the "Omaha Road", and Union Pacific still retains their AAR Reporing Mark, CMO, for use on rolling stock.

Transfer caboose MKT 5 brings up the rear of the 3 P.M. Santa Claus Express on the way back to Baldwin City, departing Norwood.

Photo Date:

12/4/2011 Upload Date: 12/5/2011 7:49:02 AM

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Norwood, KS

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Zach Pumphery

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Title:

Westbound UP Intermodal Train

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A GEVO from the most recent order leads UP Train ZG4PX 08 west at CP Loring on the UP Kansas Sub. This was the first time I've caught one of the newest GEVOs leading. I still kind of like how those "Tyco-esque" handrails look.

A NS Crew returns 14 units to UP Armourdale Yard from NS Avondale Yard in North Kansas City. 11 engines of these were C40-8s that had been leased to the NS for the past year or so, each sporting a really clean area on the cab where the "NS LEASE" decal had previously been.

A GE and a recently overhauled UP SD40N lead UP Train QNLNP 08 over the Omaha Main on the KC Metro Sub. The SD40-2 had previously been on locals in Arkansas. I wouldn't mind seeing a half dozen of them slapped on a manifest sometime.

This GP30 rebuild sits outside Mid-America Car & Locomotive after trading its BN Cascade Green in on a shiny new coat of orange and black. The unit went into the fence at MAC on 11-11-11, and finally came outside the fence again today.

RailPower Genset sits outside MAC 4 months and 1 day after it went in, after receiving a little mechanical modification. This engine started life in 11-78 as a GE B23-7, MP 2318, then became MP 4629, and UP 129. It was retired and rebuilt in 2007. From the frame down it looks much like its former self, but I sure wish it was still a B23-7.

The BNSF 19th Street Switcher heads down the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. to work an industry less than a half mile down the track as Friday evening rush hour traffic begins on I-35. The Ex-ATSF Caboose is the shoving platform assigned to the job.

KCS 4777 is a brand new GE ES44AC, built in November 2011 and carries Builder Number 60636. It was shipped from GE Erie, PA to Mid-America Car & Locomotive wearing primer, and was dressed up in the paint shop a few hundred feet away.

KCS 4777 is a brand new GE ES44AC, built in November 2011 and carries Builder Number 60636. It was shipped from GE Erie, PA to Mid-America Car & Locomotive wearing primer, and was dressed up in the paint shop a few hundred feet away.

I happened upon the vomit bonnet today, and after a little bit of thought I was able to get a decent broadside shot of the unit 5 years after I first saw it. It was the DPU on a BNSF coal empty on the KCT Bluff Line.

Crawling around the UP KC Metro Sub. Omaha Main next to the Missouri River is UP Train YFX82 30 getting a signal to head to UP Neff Yard on its way down from UP Fairfax Yard, located on the Kansas Side. Pretty nice to have a pair of SD40-2s, even if the trailing unit has been rebuilt to a SD38-2.

Pulling out of Armourdale Yard on the KCT Low Line is UP Train AAMSA 30 on its way to San Antonio. This train will run as the AAMKB. KB is a yard in San Antonio that this train is symboled for part of the time, but switches back and forth.

Rolling down the BNSF Ft Scott Sub. UP Train AAMSA 30 on its way to San Antonio. This train will run as the AAMKB at times. KB stands for Kirby, TX, and is a yard in San Antonio that this train is symboled for part of the time, but switches back and forth between KB and SA. On the right is I-35 with rush hour traffic headed out of Kansas City. This was shot from the College Boulevard overpass.